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...Jolson sings well but sings about three times too often; he brings in his gags self-consciously as an amateur vaudeville performer. Dolores Del Rio dances beautifully. Ricardo Cortez as her dancing partner looks like a hard, bad man; we like him better smiling. Dick Powell in a serious revival of his humorous part in "Blessed Event" is a singing, composing orchestra leader faintly reminiscent of a well-known insecticide. Kay Francis as a banker's lonely wife looks too gloomy. Louise Fazenda with her setback coiffure provides some good laughs, while Guy Kibbee and Hugh Herbert are conventional chaperoned...
...There Partner Felix Warburg, a carnation in his buttonhole, summons the eleven partners to conference punctually at 11 a. m. on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. On the wall of his office is a portrait of bushy old Solomon Loeb who retired one year after Otto Kahn, at 17, began his banking career in Germany as a stamp licker. There is the big white Georgian partners' room, heart of Kuhn, Loeb, where "people just roll in and roll out again." There Otto Kahn worked under his father-in-law, Partner Abraham Wolff. There he became a U. S. citizen during...
...life he remained true to the Jewish faith. Rabbi Samuel H. Goldenson of Temple Emanu-El read the services. Before sundown the body was lowered into its grave in the family plot at Cold Spring Memorial Cemetery, not far from the bones of an old friend and wise partner, Mortimer Schiff...
...conversation was rapid, precise, lucid. Short, ruddy, white-haired, he wore a small mustache which he twisted with stubby white fingers when he grew excited. At No. 52 William St. he seldom sat in his private office, preferred to work in the bustle and noise of the partners' room. When the partners next meet in that room they will have a hard time finding a man to take Otto Kahn's place-a man with the personality and power to maintain the firm's great prestige. Felix Warburg, last of the old partners, acts today mostly...
...years ago in the largest house on Manhattan's Washington Square was born H. (for Henry) Hobart Porter. His brother Seton Porter was born on 47th Street. Both grew up to be engineers. Hobart helped found the great firm of Sanderson & Porter which Seton later joined as a partner. In business as well as politics engineers sometimes become chief executives. Brother Hobart chose water for his province, Brother Seton whiskey...